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RECESSION CAN SPELL PROSPERITY IN A GLOBALISED WORLD
By Paul Cochrane
The old dictum goes – ‘one man’s loss is another man’s gain’. Curiously, in a globalised world in the midst of a financial downturn, this saying is particularly true, with certain countries unexpectedly benefiting from an otherwise near universal crisis.…
THE BEST STYLE MODEL? INTEGRATED TEXTILE AND CLOTHING COMPANIES, OR NETWORKS OF INDEPENDENT SUPPLIERS?
BY PHILIPPA JONES, DOMINIQUE PATTON and LUCY JONES
The growth in outsourcing within the clothing and textile sector worldwide has highlighted a key issue, and that is the relative merits of running an integrated company that handles basic production and design, or relying on a string of specialist suppliers to deliver the goods, from fibre supplies, to textile manufacture, design, clothing assembly and retail.…
BANGLADESH ELEPHANT VOX POP
BY PAUL COCHRANE
EVERY year villages and fields in Bangladesh are trampled by herds of roaming wild Asian elephants, destroying houses and gorging on crops central to people’s livelihoods. Villagers are also frequently wounded or even killed warding off elephants, so what do Bangladeshis think should be done?…
CONTRACTING NUMBER OF LARGE PLAYERS PUSH FOR SALES IN HEALTHY BANGLADESH TOBACCO MARKET
BY PAUL COCHRANE
PLAYERS serving the US$900 million Bangladeshi tobacco market have contracted over the past several years from 15 companies to just seven – with Dhaka Tobacco and British American Tobacco (BAT) now joint number one companies in terms of quantity.…
UNDERSTAFFING MAKES BHUTANESE NURSES' DAILY TOIL A REAL GRIND
BY KENCHO WANGDI
LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.
A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family.…
BRAZIL IS MAINSTAY OF LATIN AMERICA KNITTING INDUSTRY
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
CHINA’S entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2002 and the recent end of quotas in the US and European markets have created gigantic changes in the textile industry worldwide, with developing markets like those in Latin America expected to suffer the most from these shifts.…
SOUTH ASIAN KNITWEAR INDUSTRY HAVING MIXED FORTUNES AS GLOBALISATION INTENSIFIES
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo
THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…
ARGENTINA OILS & FATS
BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas
AS one of South America’s largest economies and the world’s leading
exporter of soy and sunflower oil, Argentina experienced a GDP growth rate
of 8.4 percent in 2006 and 7.9 percent a year earlier, according to the US
Energy and Information Administration.…
CHINA TO BECOME EXPORT MARKET FOR SOUTH ASIAN TEXTILE PRODUCERS
BY DOMINIQUE PATTON, in Beijing, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi, and KEITH NUTHALL
TIME was when the Chinese clothing industry was all about exports. But the astonishing success of China’s export industry has inspired competitors, making life harder for its exporters.…
BISCUITS INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN IN PAKISTAN
SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore
THE PAKISTANI biscuit and confectionery sector has been faring well, with 12-15% growth last year, but there are storm clouds on the horizons because of skyrocketing prices of sugar and flour. In recent years, these ingredient problems have been overshadowed by massive domestic demand, fed by more than 255 biscuit and wafer manufacturing units (42 mechanised) with an installed capacity of 47,000 metric tonnes for biscuits and 5,200 metric tonnes for wafers.…